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'AMF-FIRES OF A NATURALIST, From the Field 



Notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche, A. M., M. S., Professor of 

 Zoology and Curator of Birds and Mammals in the Kansas State 

 University. The Story of Fourteen Expeditions after North 

 American Mammals. By Clarence E. Edwords. With nu- 

 merous Illustrationa. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 



"It is not always that a professor of zoology is so enthusiastic a sportsman as 

 Prof. Dyche. His hunting; exploits are as varied as those of Gordon Gumming-, fcr 

 example, in South Africa. His grizzly bear is as dangerous as the lion, and his 

 mountain sheep and goats more difficult to stalk and shoot than any creatures of the 

 torrid zone. Evidently he came by his tastes as a hunter from lifelong experience." — 

 New York Tribune. 



" The book has no dull pages, and is often excitingly interesting, and fully instruct- 

 ive as to the habits, haunts, and nature of wild beasts." — Chicago Inter-Ocean. 



^' There is abundance of interesting incident in addition to the scientific element, 

 and the illustrations are numerous and highly graphic as to the big game met by the 

 hunters, and the hardships cheerfully undertaken." — Brooklyn Eagle. 



" The narrative is simple and manly and full of the freedom of forests. . . . This 

 record of his work ought to awaken the interest of the generations growing up, if 

 only by the contrast of his active experience of the resources of Nature and of savage 

 life with the background of culture and the environment of educational advantages 

 that are being rapidly formed for the students of the United States. Prof. Dyche 

 seems, from this account of him, to have thought no personal hardship or exertion 

 wasted in his attempt to collect facts, that the naturalist of the future may be provided 

 with complete and verified ideas as to species which will soon be extinct. This is 

 good work — work that we need and that posterity will recognize with gratitude. The 

 illustrations.of the book are interesting, and the type is clear." — New York Times. 



"The adventures are simply told, but some of them are thrilling of necessity, 

 however modestly th2 narrator does his work. Prof. Dyche has had about as many 

 experiences in the way of hunting for science as fall to the lot of the most fortunate, 

 and this recountal of them is most interesting. The camps from which he worked 

 ranged from the Lake of the Woods to Arizona, and northwest to British Columbia, 

 and in every region he v^^cLS successful in securing rare specimens for his museum." — 

 Chicago Times. 



"The literary construction is refreshing. The reader is carried into the midst of 

 the very scenes of which the author tells, not by elaborateness of description but by 

 the directness and vividness of ever/ sentence. He is given no opportunity to aban- 

 don the companions with which the book has provided him, for incident is made to 

 follow incident with no intervening literary padding. In fact, the book is all action." 

 — Kansas City Journal. 



" As an outdoor book of camping and hunting this book possesses a timely interest, 

 but it also has the merit of scientific exactness in the descriptions of the habits, 

 peculiarities, and haunts of wild animals." — Philadelphia Press. 



" But what is most important of all in a narrative of this kind — for it seems to us 

 that ' Camp-Fires of a Naturalist ' was written first of all for entertainment— these 

 notes neither have been ' dressed up ' and their accuracy thereby impaired, nor yet re- 

 tailed in a dry and statistical manner. The book, in a word, is a plain narrative of 

 adventures among the larger American animals." — Philadelphia Bulletin, 



"We recommend it most heartily to old and young alike, and suggest it as a 

 beautiful souvenir volume for those who have seen the wonderful display of mounted 

 animals at the World's Fair." — Topeka Capital. 



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